CHINESE LABOR
MR BALFOUR’S REPLY. By tolegraEh, Presa Ass’n, Copyrigh Received 10.44 p.m., Nov 24, London, Nov 24.:
Replying to a petition to terminate the experiment of Chines' labor, Mr Balfour, in a letter dated the 22ud, declaring that no case bad boen shown for a reversal of the preaeut policy, remarks:—"The whites in the Tiaosvial, in a few months henoo, will have adequate machinery under the constitution for expressing their view?. If these aie in ha mony with the petition I shall gladly agree to abandon the experiment. Should they be favorable the existing legislation ought not. to over-ruled by Downing Street. There is no distinction between the status of the coolie and the status of the Kaffir, except that a greater distance is travelled, nor in principle between the legal, status of the indentured Asiatic in the Transvaal and his condition in other colonies. Indentured labor, ooolic or native, must be treated as a whole.” ' I
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1611, 25 November 1905, Page 2
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158CHINESE LABOR Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1611, 25 November 1905, Page 2
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